Hammer hit the cap

Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plan pour moi (btw if this seems like an conflicting source of song... its supposed to be.  Madness for madness and all that)

All is well
All is good
Everything is as it should
Be
But its not

I woke to find
My world bathed in blood
Never nice

I wonder how long
They waited
Before the finger tense
Finally decided to press
Le petit revolution
In the protest for peace
In the moment
Before the hammer hit the cap
Did they smile?
Did they frown?
What was the visage de guerre?
As if it mattered
In the moment
Before empty shell casings fell
In the counting of coup

It seems CNN
Had done its job
Reporting
Before
Messy facts had reared their heads
In the finest journalistic style of the  1890s
If all you can report is the sweat and fog of chaos
In the seething cauldron
Laissez les bon temps roulette
Sex sells
And
If it bleeds
It leads

My town
My home
My backyard
Head hung  in
Shame, sorrow, 
Frustation... confusion
It changes little

All is well
All is good
Everything is as it should
Be
But its not